September December

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September - December

• Leave pruning tools in storage
• Healing of wounds slower in fall
• Drying and dieback more likely
• Decay fungi spread high
• Exception
• Oak and Elm

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Thats good information, but How should trees
and shrubs be pruned?
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Prune for function

• Broken, diseased, and dead
• Obstructing limbs and branches
• Clear doors and windows
• Form, shape, vigor, and beauty

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Why prune?

• Control habit of growth
• Remove dead, broken, and diseased
• Produce desired shape and form
• Improve flowering and fruiting
• Improve survival rate

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Pruning equipment

• Hand Shears
• Pruning Loppers
• Pruning Saw
• Pole Tree Saw